E-mail flow.

Using Valimail to help with SPF,DKIM,DMARC monitoring with Microsoft 365

This post revolves around the e-mail concepts for SPF/DKIM and DMARC to increase your e-mail reputation as well as protecting your domain from being misused by others i.e impersonation. We will also go through the tool provided by Valimail to have this monitored, all integrated with your Azure AD for SSO.

Enabling Microsoft “Cloud enabled LAPS” (Local Admin Password Solution)

LAPS – Local Admin Password Solution, has for a long time been one of those great tools to have in the toolbox when it comes to securing your devices from lateral movement from a potential attacker. And Microsoft LAPS have been around for quite some time already.

This tool was orginally available for deployment to server/desktop devices connected to a traditional domain (on-prem) setup.

This changed as of April 2023, and Microsoft have now introduced Microsoft LAPS (Preview) with support for configuration with Intune, and saving the passwords to Azure AD, giving us – once again – a native LAPS solution to handle the local admin account.

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Solving terrible performance in application using folders with high filecount

Recently I was troubleshooting terrible application Performance for a windows application.
This application is using files and directories located on a file server.
The file server OS was Windows server 2016 and the clients are Windows Server 2019 Citrix terminal servers.

The application uses seperate client folders containing files pr client, with alot of files inside the various folders – some more than others.
In this specific there were tens of thousands of files in some client folders.
Performance on the application was intermittently slow, and it could take upto 15 minutes to switch between one client and another inside the application Read on to get the solution

Office 365 Splash

Why you need Office 365

It’s no secret that Microsoft is doing good when it comes to their subscription-based Office 365 package, it’s also not a secret that this is the preferred way for Microsoft to sell the Office package for their customers, as prices for volume based licensing are on the rise. But why should you opt in to Read more about Why you need Office 365[…]

Why you need Citrix SD-WAN

First of, what is Citrix SD-WAN? The short answer, it’s virtualization of your current WAN network. Normally, you would have an internal network, and a Wide Area Network (internet access), and then depending on the size of your company, you could also have several branch offices with their own network setup. The larger the network, Read more about Why you need Citrix SD-WAN[…]

Citrix WEM 4.7 – SID and memory issue

Recently I upgraded Citrix Workspace Environment Management from v4.2 > 4.7. The environment for this WEM installation is on-prem and is used across multiple forests (trusts in place), to apply the same settings to multiple different XenApp hosts. At the beginning everything seemed to work as normal, brokering etc, agent comm etc, but the following Read more about Citrix WEM 4.7 – SID and memory issue[…]

Limit Group Policies to specific OUs, users or computers

Using GPO’s to apply settings to users and computers have always been a great way to make administration and deployments more seamless for admins and users. Working with many different customers, where IT has various experience with this, I see a lot of misconfigured Group Policies, so why not write a post about it. Group Read more about Limit Group Policies to specific OUs, users or computers[…]

The Cloud – What is it – and what types exist

The cloud – a word getting more and more common for each passing day. You hear about the cloud and cloud services everywhere, and most people are using it or services there without thinking much about it. So, what is Cloud and Cloud services? For the most part, it´s a marketing term used for services Read more about The Cloud – What is it – and what types exist[…]

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